< 1 minute readNot top hats and rabbits magic – the good kind. Shakib Al Hasan took 1-24 against Zimbabwe today. Then he hit 105 not out off 69 balls by way of an encore. Almost imperceptibly, he’s becoming a top all-rounder and Bangladesh’s first superstar. He was even named Test player of
Continue reading< 1 minute readJust the other day we were wondering whether any of Mahendra Dhoni’s millions of fans had actually noticed that he doesn’t really obliterate the bowling any more. Despite the fact that he scores far more runs now, we wondered whether he was largely buoyed by residual love from when he
Continue reading< 1 minute readRecovered England captain, Michael Vaughan, is being interviewed tomorrow (Thursday) and you may be able to have your question put to him if you comment here. We would ask him to conjugate a verb and then watch him fall at the first-person hurdle. Then we would ask him the one
Continue reading< 1 minute readThere are people who only read this site for the comments. That’s fair enough. Really the posts are just pegs to hang the comments off. Sometimes we’re tempted to just put up a title on its own as that’s all that’s really needed. However, what you, the reader, often miss
Continue reading< 1 minute readHow are the next generation of England cricketers going to get the experience they need now that the Home Office has brought in legislation that targets Kolpak players? How will young South Africans get the necessary experience of English conditions to help them earn their place in the Test side?
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe saw an article titled ‘Anderson wants to captain England’ and we immediately thought: ‘He’ll be lucky’. We thought this for the exact same reasons that Anderson himself thought it: “As a fast bowler and from the North, I suppose I’m very unlikely to get a look in.” This is
Continue reading< 1 minute readPerennially sulky, team-mate-slapping off-spinner, Harbhajan Singh, played some demented shots in hitting 49 off 31 balls in a heroic but doomed bid to win the first one-day international against Australia. Praveen Kumar was a handy sidekick, hitting 40 not out off 32. Harbhajan enjoys batting against Australia. If you’re due
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe knew this. Lee hit 48 off 31 balls, which went a long way towards helping New South Wales win the Champions League Twenty20. He took a couple of wickets too. We’re not sure that ‘wanting him in Australia’s Test side’ is really acceptable, so we’re not going to tell
Continue reading< 1 minute readBy all accounts the New Zealand players liked Andy Moles, who’s just resigned from his position as their coach. However, being liked isn’t really the whole job. It was fairly obvious that Moles was going to have to go after Daniel Vettori was asked whether the New Zealand players were
Continue reading< 1 minute readIn the second Champions League Twenty20 semi final, Trinidad and Tobago’s Dwayne Bravo took 0-46 off three well-spanked overs against Cape Cobras. No matter. He promptly hit 58 off 34 balls to help T&T waltz home. The Dwayne Bravo off-side thock made a couple of appearances. In many ways this
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